Professor Wright co-authors new ACM report on voter privacy

Report includes voter registration guidelines to assure privacy and accuracy

Dr. Rebecca Wright, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology, is one of the authors of a new report, the Electronic Voter Registration Database Study, commissioned and recently issued by the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) US Public Policy Committee (USACM). Wright collaborated with a team of team of computer science and technology experts that recently issued recommendations to ensure that electronic records of information submitted by citizens registering to vote are accurate, private and secure. In the report, state and local election officials now have nearly 100 high-level guidelines designed to help states comply with Federal laws that require computerized statewide electronic databases to be operational by January 1, 2006.